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Students who formed an encampment astatine Columbia University successful New York City, successful protestation of Israel’s warfare against Hamas successful Gaza, were met with the afloat unit of the New York Police Department aft the schoolhouse reversed people to let instrumentality enforcement unit connected campus. The determination prompted backlash from Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and ignited a tiff betwixt the lawmaker and the constabulary unit online.
"Good SAT scores and self-entitlement bash not supersede the law," NYPD Chief John Chell wrote successful a tweet aboriginal Thursday morning.
"Columbia decided to clasp its students accountable to the laws of the school," helium added. "I americium definite you would hold that we person to thatch them these invaluable beingness skills."
The remark came aft Ocasio-Cortez complained Wednesday that Columbia made "the horrific determination to mobilize NYPD connected their ain students."
NYPD officers apprehension anti-Israel protesters arsenic they artifact the roadways extracurricular Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s Brooklyn location successful New York City connected Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Digital)
The students are protesting Israel’s warfare successful Gaza, which has resulted successful tens of thousands of Palestinian deaths.
Fox News Digital reached retired to Ocasio-Cortez's bureau for further comment, but a effect was not instantly received.
On Thursday, the NYPD responded to AOC, applauding the schoolhouse for holding its students "accountable" for "the consequences of their actions."
"Truly amazing! Columbia decided to clasp its students accountable to the laws of the school. They are seeing the consequences of their actions. Something these kids were astir apt ne'er taught," Chell wrote Thursday.
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He continued: "Secondly, I was with those ‘units’ past Thursday that you picture arsenic having, ‘the astir convulsive reputations.’ These ‘units’ removed students with large attraction and professionalism, not a azygous incidental was reported."
The NYPD responded to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's disapproval of Columbia University's determination to usage instrumentality enforcement officers to reconstruct peace. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
And, "The lone incidents that time connected field were the student's hateful anti-Semitic code and vile connection towards our cops."
The constabulary main besides urged the lawmaker to "rethink" her comments and convey the NYPD officers.
"I americium definite you hold immoderate hateful code is unacceptable. You should rethink your comments to a elemental convey you to the NYPD and hatred has nary spot successful our society," helium wrote, adding: "Lack of accountability = consequences."
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"Hate from anyone, anyplace has nary spot successful our metropolis and country," Chell concluded.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry besides weighed in, pointing to however the protests are impacting different students astatine the school.
"Everyone has a Constitutional close to protest, it’s 1 of the pillars our large ideology is built on. But kids besides person a close to spell to schoolhouse without being harassed, threatened, intimidated oregon assaulted," Daughtry wrote.
NYPD officers patrol arsenic anti-Israel protesters show extracurricular of Columbia University’s field successful New York City connected Thursday, April 18, 2024. (Peter Gerber for Fox News Digital)
The lawman commissioner added: "There is thing ‘horrific’ astir protecting the information of Columbia’s young students who are conscionable trying to spell to school. We’ve said it clip and clip again, the NYPD volition ever support and support your close to protestation but conscionable due to the fact that you clasp a motion portion you’re threatening, harassing, intimidating and assaulting radical doesn’t springiness you a escaped walk from transgression conduct."
"Being anti-Semitic and spewing hatred to kids volition ne'er ever beryllium tolerated successful our city. Our officers are the champion and astir highly trained instrumentality enforcement professionals successful the world. Everyday, they person to endure insults, threats, and hatred code simply due to the fact that the azygous they deterioration arsenic they effort to support the bid and support everyone’s rights," his tweet continued.
The NYPD lawman commissioner besides encouraged Ocasio-Cortez to visit Columbia and to locomotion done the field to spot the protest.
"I committedness our officers will, similar always, bash their job, and support you similar they person protected everyone connected field careless of what your governmental beliefs are. We’ll besides instrumentality a study if you consciousness threatened," helium concluded.
On Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez, who has publically expressed her enactment for the protests – which she has described arsenic "peaceful" – criticized the school’s determination to telephone for instrumentality enforcement officers to assistance reconstruct bid connected campus.
"Not lone did Columbia marque the horrific determination to mobilize NYPD connected their ain students, but the units called successful person immoderate of the astir convulsive reputations connected the force," she tweeted. "NYPD had promised the metropolis they wouldn’t deploy SRG [Strategic Response Group] to [the] protests."
A enactment of Palestinian flags is seen connected the obstruction astatine the anti-Israel encampment astatine Columbia University successful New York connected Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)
Columbia continued to negociate with students to wide the encampment aft determination were implicit 100 students arrested, but the respective failed attempts person been mostly fruitless.
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Columbia University averted different confrontation betwixt students and constabulary earlier Wednesday arsenic the schoolhouse extended the negotiations to scope an statement connected clearing an encampment done a midnight deadline that University President Minouche Shafik had acceptable connected Tuesday. The schoolhouse extended negotiations for different 48 hours.
Police said 133 protesters were taken into custody astatine the New York assemblage this week.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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